Sunday, March 19, 2017

On or about January 16th, 2017, RCC filed an open records request into the City of Racine Police Department.

RCC received approximately 42 pages of documents and 77 pictures on a disc. Included in the documents was a 4 page "in house" Weapons Discharge Review.

The public records request focused on
the actions of police during a no-knock search warrant executed in the
2000 block of Kearney Avenue in the city of Racine on November 30th.
2016. During the execution of the search warrant, a dog named Sugar was "dispatched" by police.According to the documents obtained from
the public records request; The City of Racine Police executed the
no-knock warrant at 5:03 am on Wednesday, November 30th, 2016. seeking
an unidentified .40 caliber firearm (handgun).

This no-knock search warrant was based on an ongoing investigation of an attempted homicide on 11-15-2016 that took place in the 1700 block of Washington Ave.

The target of the search warrant was a
.40 caliber handgun which was allegedly used by a 17 year old
juvenile in an attempted murder. The 17 year old was a suspect in
several shootings involving a dispute among rival street gangs,
including the Dirty P gang, of which the suspect was alleged by Racine
Police to be a member.

The search warrant yielded two
suspects, both juveniles who were found in the basement. Authorities
apprehended the two suspects and held them for questioning.

Out of approximately 15 officers
involved in the executed search warrant, only one officer in the
documents referenced marijuana and stated the following;

"Immediately
upon entry into the residence I detected an odor of burnt or
freshly-smoked marijuana throughout the entire residence".This officer (Sergeant %%%) was the SWAT team leader.

Throughout the reports, there is no mention of any drug evidence collected during the search, nor was the target .40 caliber handgun located during the execution of the search warrant.

Whether any data was collected from the confiscated phones or I-Pad is unknown to the writer at this time.

Here are a few excerpts from the reports:

"the team breacher forced entry to the front door. I immediately
announce in a clear, loud voice "Police. Search Warrant." I made my way
inside to the living room and immediately saw a large white dog jump
from the couch and run through a threshold to my left."

“It is common knowledge that persons involved in illegal activity own
large, vicious dogs to not only guard against rival criminals but also
to impede law enforcement should they be a target of a search warrant”.

"The dog had a delivery system for utilization of the
weapon(functioning legs to advance on the entry team,working jaws which
was evident by the dog's K-9 teeth which were displayed, no obstructions
between SWAT operator Sergeant ### and the dog".

"The dog presented an "imminent threat" to SWAT operator Sergeant ### and the entry team as a whole"

"My assignment was the #1 position in the first cell on the entry
team. I was armed with my department issued M4 rifle and dressed in
full SWAT police uniform and body armor"

( Sergeant ### who "dispatched" Sugar)

According to information gleaned from the reports about the dog; When
police forcefully entered the house, the dog jumped off of the living
room couch and ran away thru a hallway into a bedroom.

A
SWAT officer fully equipped with body armor and an M4 assault rifle
followed the dog thru the hallway and entered the threshold of the
bedroom. The dog was trapped with no other avenues of escape.

The
dog growled, displayed its teeth and moved towards the SWAT officer.
The SWAT officer (Sergeant ###) fearing an imminent threat
"dispatched"(executed) the dog, discharging 5 rounds from his M4 assault
rifle at the dog.

Racine Police conducted an "in house" review of the incident and found the actions of the SWAT team to be appropriate and justified.

(the "in house review" was conducted by the team leader of SWAT, Sergeant %%%)

We hardly consider a dog to be an
imminent threat to a fully attired SWAT officer complete with body
armor. That argument is both ludicrous and just plain laughable.

Understanding the dynamics of a high
intensity no - knock search warrant may help us in assessing the
decision the officer made when he shot the dog. Before the dog was shot, the room had yet to be secured, so there was a possibility others could have been hiding in the room waiting for the right opportunity to do harm.

The "dispatching" officer stated in his report:

"the animal showed its teeth,
growled and charged in my direction. Fearing an imminent threat for my
safety and the safety of my teammates, I fired three rounds from my
rifle as the animal then turned away from me. I could tell I struck the
animal 1-3 times. The dog out of view behind the bed, then jumped on the
bed and came toward me again. Fearing an imminent threat for my safety
and the safety of my teammates, I fired one round which had an
immediate effect, stopping the animal and its advance towards me. the
dog was laying on the bed incapacitated but breathing heavily with its
eyes open. I was under the impression that, although the animal was
fatally wounded , it was potentially suffering. As a humane measure, I
approached and fired one last round in the animal's head which stopped
its movement altogether".

A dog friendly(smarter) officer may have
used a less than lethal tactic by using his M4 assault rifle to blunt,
block or lightly batter the dog to thwart and discourage any possible
attack from the dog.

The M4 is a durable weapon and the choice of most of the U.S. armed forces. When the M4 used like a bō, it can be used to block, thrust and strike a dog to deter or thwart its aggressive behavior

So the officer made the choice to
"dispatch" the dog instead of using "less than lethal tactics" when one
clear choice was available.

To compound the issues:

The Racine Police Department "in house" Weapons Discharge Review was conducted by the same SWAT team leader

(Sergeant %%%%) who led the SWAT team during the incident.In his "in house" report to Racine
Police Deputy Chief John Polzin, Sergeant %%% determined that the
actions of SWAT were appropriate and justified.He got to investigate himself

Patti Smith changed plans for her Milwaukee concert when I
reminded her of the date. “March 9—that’s the day I met Fred!” she says
excitedly. “Oh my gosh.” And as a result, at her Thursday, March 9
show—her first in town in 38 years—Smith promised to perform a “Fred
trilogy,” as she calls it, comprised of the three songs she wrote in the
’70s about her late husband, Fred “Sonic” Smith: “Because the Night,”
“Dancing Barefoot” and a number rarely performed in recent years,
“Frederick.”

Milwaukee was one of the first cities outside Smith’s New
York home base where her music was widely embraced. Much of that
attention resulted from the single-minded efforts of DJ Bob Reitman, who
was already talking Smith up even before her debut album, Horses. On the night of Horses’
release in the winter of 1975, Reitman played the LP on the air in its
entirety. Most of us had never heard anything like it. Raw as an open
wound and yet broad in human sympathy, Horses was a head-on
collision of high-octane rock with modernist poetry. Not unlike William
Carlos Williams and other early 20th-century poets, Smith melded
literary and colloquial influences. Arthur Rimbaud inhabited the lyrics
of “Land” alongside ’60s dance crazes such as the Watusi and the Mashed
Potato.

In the years since Horses, Smith accepted the Nobel
Prize for Bob Dylan, sang at the Vatican for Pope Francis, was inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, won the National Book Award for
her memoir, Just Kids, and saw her photography exhibited in museums. But Horses
was what lifted her from the pre-gentrified Bowery into the
international spotlight. Caught up in the scene that gathered in the
tiny bar called CBGB’s, Smith endowed punk rock with a dimension beyond
simple assertions and three chords.

“I didn’t start as a musician and I’m not a musician, really. I started as a poet,” Smith says about the origin of Horses’songs.
“Birdland” and “Horses” began as poems. The line that famously opened
the album and framed her radical reinvention of Van Morrison’s
“Gloria”—“Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine”—came from a poem
she’d written in 1970. “Horses was a culmination of my evolution from poetry to performance; it all coalesced on that album,” she continues.

Men in Black

Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.

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